Re: [PATCH net v1] rtnetlink: fix error logic of IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS writing back

[Lin Ma]

Hello Nikolay,

> 
> That fix is obviously broken, I don't know how I missed it back then.
> One comment below,

Guess is because this loop is so weird :(
I looked into the kernel and did not find other codes that refer to the
NLA pointer outside the `nla_for_each_nested` loop.

> ...
> >   	struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
> >   	struct ifinfomsg *ifm;
> >   	struct net_device *dev;
> > -	struct nlattr *br_spec, *attr = NULL;
> > +	struct nlattr *br_spec, *attr, *br_flag = NULL;
> 
> Please name the variable to something that describes it better, like
> br_flags_attr.
> 

OK, I will rename the variable and send another version.

> >   	int rem, err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >   	u16 flags = 0;
> > -	bool have_flags = false;
> >   
> >   	if (nlmsg_len(nlh) < sizeof(*ifm))
> >   		return -EINVAL;
> > @@ -5190,11 +5189,11 @@ static int rtnl_bridge_setlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
> >   	br_spec = nlmsg_find_attr(nlh, sizeof(struct ifinfomsg), IFLA_AF_SPEC);
> >   	if (br_spec) {